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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, pp. 217-290.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does truth applied to science or religion convey?
(a) Nothing clear.
(b) That there is no truth.
(c) A higher truth.
(d) A lesser truth.

2. How does Einstein characterize the first ten years of the Jewish presence in Palestine?
(a) As a dismal failure.
(b) As grueling and discouraging.
(c) As exceeding all expectations.
(d) As about what expected.

3. Whose work shatters the framework of classical mechanics and provides the basis for further research in physics?
(a) Frederick Grover.
(b) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
(c) Paul Dirac.
(d) Max Planck.

4. What has revived the sense of community, saved many lives, and provided joyous and creative work?
(a) The Jewish Ghettos.
(b) Zionism.
(c) The hope of a future.
(d) The United States opening their borders to Jewish emmigrants.

5. Why does Einstein think people should labor as little as possible to maintain life and health?
(a) Because that labor has no last value.
(b) Because human relationships need as much time as possible.
(c) In order to concentrate on their intellectual and artistic powers.
(d) In order to partake in spiritual pursuits.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new physical reality does Faraday introduce?

2. What should history do?

3. What does Germany use to justify atrocities against the Jews?

4. According to Einstein, what must Jews strive to be?

5. "On Academic Freedom" (1931) defends whom?

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